Today, 48 years ago, on October 31, 1977 (Calendar, September 19, 1977), the first general election after independence was held in Suriname. On October 31, 1977, the first general election after independence was held in the Republic of Southern Suriname, and the Suriname National League headed by Prime Minister Henk-Aron won the general election. According to the election results announced by the Election Committee on November 2, the National League won twenty-one seats out of the thirty-nine seats in the parliament. The National League consisted of the following four parties: the Suriname National Party, the Progressive People's Party of Southern Suriname, the Indonesian Peasants' Party and the Progressive Party of Innovation. With the opposition leader Jagiellos Lamontch as the leading Progressive Reform Party and several other political parties, the